2 men charged in West Side double shooting

Two men were charged over the weekend in a Friday drive-by shooting that injured a 22-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy on the city's West Side.

Jalen Searcy, 18, and Willie Powell, 21, were ordered held without bail Sunday in Cook County bond court after being charged with two counts each of attempted first-degree murder in the East Garfield Park neighborhood shooting.

The shooting happened on the 3400 block of West Walnut Street, and was witnessed by a Chicago police officer who was doing surveillance in the neighborhood at the time, prosecutors said. Police arrested the two men in a white van soon after the shooting.

The 22-year-old victim suffered a wound to his buttocks and the boy suffered a graze wound to his shoulder, police said. Both were taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where the man was listed as in good condition and the boy was treated and released.

Prosecutors said Searcy was driving a white van when he pulled up to a parked SUV and, using a gun that had been handed to him by Powell, opened fire on the vehicle’s occupants.

A pair of gunmen shot six people, one fatally, at a West Side party early Saturday morning, trapping partygoers in a crossfire as one opened fire toward a back porch from an alley while someone else opened fire from the front door once people tried to run inside.